The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, will begin to host its Nine Commemoration Committee, a forum this Thursday to remember the victims killed during a random act of hate. In June 2015, during a Bible study group at the church, Dylan Storm Roof, a white supremacist, opened …
Read More »Regé-Jean Page, left; Chris Rock; John Boyega; Jonathan Majors.Photo: Jeff Spicer (Getty Images), Amy Sussman (Getty Images), Yuichi Yamazaki (Getty Images), Gregg DeGuire (Getty Images) This is a Josh O’Connor appreciation post. If you asked, “Josh who?” he was the perfectly cast Prince Charles in the most recent season of …
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The Columbia professor Carl Hart believes that we can use drugs safely, and that doing so is our American right. Pascal Meier / Unsplash Listen and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts The Columbia professor Carl Hart spent his career studying the effects of drugs, and …
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Late rapper Tupac Shakur would have celebrated his 50th birthday on Wednesday (June 16) and Kaavia James, daughter of Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade, received a special gift that commemorates him. On Saturday (June 12) the L.A.’s Finest actress shared a video on Kaavia’s Instagram page showing the 2-year-old reacting …
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A Black 7-year-old boy from South Carolina who was an honor student, was mauled to death by a pack of dogs. Shamar Jackson was killed on Sunday after he and his brother were walking through their neighborhood looking for their pet chihuahua, Marion, according to The State. Related stories: THIS BRAND …
Read More »Photo: Nanthaphiphat watto (Shutterstock) On Monday, a cashier working at a Decatur, Ga., supermarket was shot dead by a customer who she had asked to wear his face mask properly while he was in the store. On Tuesday, DeKalb County police identified that cashier as 41-year-old Laquitta Willis. ABC News …
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President Joe Biden is preparing to add an historic number of Black women to the nation’s federal appeals courts. USA Today reports there are currently just four Black women on the appeals bench, of more than 170 judgeships. However, that number will double to eight in Biden’s first few months …
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Clark Atlanta University (CAU) announced that it will be one of the historically black colleges and universities which will prepare students for equity or alternative-credit investing careers, as a part of an extensive $90 million joint initiative. http:// “Investing in the future of our students at Clark Atlanta University …
Read More »Gina Torres attends National Geographic’s Los Angeles Premiere Of “Cosmos: Possible Worlds” on February 26, 2020 in Westwood, Calif.Photo: Joe Scarnici (Getty Images) This time last week, The Root’s Felice Léon was issuing a pointed reminder to the cast and crew of In the Heights that darker-skinned Latinx people not …
Read More »In the summer of 1893, an unusual volume appeared on the shelves of London booksellers. The Great Barrier Reef of Australia: Its Products and Potentialities, published by W. H. Allen and Company, was remarkable both for its price—the leather-bound volume would have cost a skilled tradesperson nearly two weeks’ pay—and …
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